One of the great strengths of WordPress lies in its vast ecosystem of plugins. AI is transforming how websites are made — and WordPress is no exception. A raft of new AI-powered plugins been released over the few months designed to streamline all kinds of tasks from content generation to theme design, to customer service chatbots and inbuilt SEO tools. Let’s look at some of the best AI tools for WordPress in 2024.
AI Plugins for WordPress
Content Creation
10Web AI Assistant
All-in-one AI Content Creation and SEO
What it does: 10Web AI Assistant acts as your personal AI writer, editor, and SEO specialist within your WordPress environment. It helps you generate new content, rewrite existing content, and optimise it for search engines (SEO) – all without leaving the WordPress editor.
✅ Generate high-quality content from scratch, including blog posts, product descriptions, and social media content.
✅ Freshen-up existing content to improve clarity, conciseness, and engagement.
✅ Optimise your content for target keywords and improve SEO ranking.
AI Engine
Supercharge Your Workflow with a full Suite of AI Tools
What it does: Meow Apps’ AI Engine goes beyond basic content generation. It’s a full AI suite offering a variety of tools for WordPress users. From content and generating images to automating tasks, AI Engine is there to streamline your workflow.
You can create and manage chatbots directly within your WordPress dashboard. These chatbots can then be put to use answering queries, collecting leads, and even guiding visitors through your webpages — enhancing user experience and potentially boosting conversions.
✅ Create high-quality text content like blog posts, product descriptions, and even creative text formats.
✅ Create unique images based on your descriptions, adding visual flair to your website.
✅ Build chatbots to provide 24/7 customer service and enhance user engagement.
Divi AI
Built-in AI Assistant for Divi Users
What it does: A powerful AI suite designed specifically for Divi, the popular drag-and-drop page builder for WordPress. If you’re unfamiliar with Divi, it allows you to create beautiful and functional websites visually, without needing to write any code. Divi AI integrates within Divi, adding a layer of AI-powered assistance to website creation.
✅ Create unique and engaging content, including blog posts, product descriptions, and headlines.
✅ Make high-quality images based on your descriptions, perfectly complementing your website’s design.
✅ Write custom CSS code within the Divi builder, saving you time and effort.
AI Power
Comprehensive AI Content Creation and SEO
What it does: AI Power is a comprehensive AI plugin designed for WordPress, making use of AI to streamline content creation, image generation, and chatbot development for your website.
✅ Generate various content formats like blog posts, product descriptions, and headlines, all powered by AI.
✅ Create high-quality images directly within the plugin based on your descriptions, using models like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion.
✅ Build chatbots with functionalities like tone and profession options, and integrate them into your website.
✅ Optimise your content for search engines with the built-in SEO tools.
✅ Integrates with other services like WooCommerce, Pexels, and Azure OpenAI APIs
AI Content Writing Assistant
Content Writer and Image Generator All in One
What it does: While Divi AI and AI Power focus on WordPress and Divi specifically, ReCorp’s AI Content Writing Assistant prioritises written content creation. It uses multiple AI models to help you create different content formats across various platforms.
✅ Generate content for blog posts, website copy, social media posts, product descriptions, and more.
✅ Scheduled Content Generation (Auto content writer)
✅ Integrates with multiple platforms (allowing you to use the assistant for content creation outside of WordPress).
Task Automation
Uncanny Automator
The All-Purpose Workflow Hero
What it does: Uncanny Automator empowers you to build automated workflows (called “recipes”) within WordPress. It connects various plugins and functionalities, allowing you to trigger specific actions based on user behaviour or website events. This automates repetitive tasks and streamlines your workflow.
✅ Create custom recipes to connect different plugins and automate tasks across your WordPress site.
✅ Set triggers based on user actions (e.g., form submission, purchase) or website events (e.g., new post published).
✅ Automate various actions like adding users to mailing lists, enrolling them in courses, sending notifications, and more.
Media File Renamer
Tame That Busy Media Library
What it does: Media File Renamer tackles the common headache of media library clutter, automatically renaming your media files based on their titles and your prompts – making them both easier to find and SEO-friendlier.
✅ Smartly automated renaming for a clean and tidy media library.
✅ Manual control for individual files.
✅ Improved SEO with descriptive file names.
Themes and Design
Elementor AI
AI-powered Design and Content Creation for Elementor Users
What it does: Elementor AI integrates with the Elementor page builder, offering a suite of AI tools to streamline your website creation process. It helps you generate content, create images, and even write code, all within the familiar Elementor interface.
✅ Generate high-quality text content like blog posts, product descriptions, and headlines directly in the Elementor editor.
✅ Create unique images based on your descriptions, perfectly complementing your website’s design.
✅ Write custom CSS code within the Elementor builder, saving you time and effort on website development.
Customer Service Bots
Tidio
AI-powered Customer Service and Engagement
What it does: Tidio takes live chat a step further with AI-powered features to improve user engagement and offer 24/7 customer support on your WordPress website. Tidio’s pre-built chatbots can answer frequently asked questions and handle basic enquiries, freeing up your time for more complex issues.
✅ Integrate live chat directly into your website, allowing real-time communication with visitors.
✅ AI-powered chatbots to answer common questions and give basic support anytime, around the clock.
✅ Manage all customer interactions (chat, email, social media) from one central hub.
✅ Offer proactive chat pop-ups to engage website visitors and boost conversion rates.
Did you know?
WordPress began life in 2003 as a blogging platform, but has since been transformed into a powerful all-purpose tool for all sorts of websites. This is in part down to open-source magic — anyone can access and modify the code. The huge community of developers is another big reason for its success (and they’re often there to offer support, when you need it). As of 2023, an incredible 43% of the top 10 million websites use WordPress!
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
WordLift
AI-powered Content Optimisation
What it does: WordLift uses artificial intelligence to analyse your content, identify relevant entities, and optimise your website for search engines.
✅ Automatically generates schema markup to improve search engine understanding of your content.
✅ Create a knowledge graph for your site to help improve user engagement and search results.
✅ Suggests relevant entities and links to enrich your content and improve SEO.
✅ Provides insights into your content performance and helps you identify opportunities for improvement.
SEO Press
Effortless On-Page Search Engine Optimisation
What it does: SEO Press simplifies on-page SEO for WordPress users. It provides a comprehensive suite of tools to optimise your website content all within your familiar WordPress interface. This helps search engines understand your website better and potentially improve your search ranking.
✅ Optimise titles, meta descriptions, and header tags for targeted keywords.
✅ Manage and generate XML sitemaps for improved search engine indexing.
✅ Integrate schema markup to provide richer search results snippets and enhance click-through rates.
✅ Track your website’s SEO performance with built-in analytics.
All in One SEO
Powerful and User-Friendly SEO
What it does: All in One SEO (AIOSEO) is a popular plugin that simplifies search engine optimisation (SEO) for WordPress users. It offers a user-friendly interface with a range of tools to enhance your website’s content, descriptions, titles, and more.
✅ Craft titles, meta descriptions, and headings that target relevant keywords to help search engines understand your content and improve ranking.
✅ Automatically generate an XML sitemap for your website, ensuring search engines can easily crawl and index all your pages.
✅ Integrate schema markup to create informative and visually appealing snippets in search results, potentially boosting click-through rates.
✅ Built-in content analysis tool to get actionable suggestions for optimising content
✅ Granular SEO Control so you can fine-tune SEO settings for individual pages and posts.
Rank Math SEO
Feature-packed SEO mastery
What it does: Rank Math SEO is feature-rich and designed to empower you with everything you need to excel in search engine optimisation for your WordPress website. Go beyond the basics with in-depth content analysis and competitor research tools (on paid plans).
✅ Make titles, meta descriptions, and heading tags for relevant keywords.
✅ Custom Content Analysis: Tailor the built-in content analysis tool to your specific needs and writing style for personal SEO recommendations.
✅ SEO Performance Tracking: Monitor your website’s SEO health with detailed reports and track your progress.
✅ Advanced Keyword Magic: Go beyond basic keyword targeting with in-depth keyword research tools to identify high-performing keywords and come up with the best strategy.
✅ Competitor Content Spy (Pro): Uncover what your competitors are ranking for and glean valuable insights to inform your own SEO strategy (available in paid plans).
Sales, Ads, and Monetisation
OptinMonster
AI-Enhanced lead Generation and Marketing Automation
What it does: OptinMonster uses AI to create high-converting opt-in forms, popups, and other lead capture tools. It uses advanced targeting and personalisation to deliver the right message to the right visitor at the right time, maximising your lead generation potential.
✅ AI-powered targeting rules to display specific opt-in forms based on user behaviour and demographics.
✅ Create personalised campaigns with dynamic content that resonates with individual visitors.
✅ A/B test different opt-in forms to boost conversion rates and lead generation.
Ezoic
A Full AI Website Optimisation Suite
What it does: Ezoic offers a suite of website tools geared to help website owners improve revenue, speed, and user experience. Ezoic is designed for websites with significant traffic in mind.
✅ The Ezoic plugin provides WordPress with features and settings for Ezoic on their website.
✅ AI tools to improve content creation and SEO, both for written and video content
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Formidable Forms
Create AI Forms That Work Better For You
What it does: Formidable Forms lets you create a wide variety of forms for your WordPress website – from simple contact forms and surveys to complex payment gateways and quizzes.
✅ An intuitive drag-and-drop builder to create a variety of forms including contact forms, surveys, payment gateways, and more.
✅ Use powerful conditional logic to personalise user experience based on specific responses.
✅ Integrates with popular payment processors for smooth transactions.
Akismet
AI Algorithms to Stop Spam in Its Tracks
What it does: Akismet is your silent spam guardian, automatically checking comments and filters out the dodgy ones.
✅ Blocks spam comments and messages spam from comments and contact form submissions.
✅ Integrates with your WordPress dashboard for easy management.
✅ Continuously learns and adapts algorithmically to stay ahead of the latest spam tactics.
How do I install or uninstall WordPress plugins?
It’s really easy to add or remove WordPress plugins. Start by accessing your Managed WordPress dashboard. From there, select Plugins from the left-hand menu.
To install plugins from the store, choose the option Add New. Search for the plugin you wish to install using the provided field. Once you’ve found it, select Install Now.
If you’d like to use a file that’s already on your computer, select Upload Plugin. From there, click Choose File and find the plugin within your files (it should be uploaded as a ZIP file). Select Install Now to complete the process.
Once your plugins are installed, don’t forget you’ll also need to activate them. Find the plugin you’d like to use and select Activate.
How to deactivate or uninstall a WordPress plugin
There may be times when you need to deactivate or uninstal a plugin. Fortunately, getting rid of WordPress plugins is just as easy as installing them.
If your site does start misbehaving, temporarily deactivating plugins one by one can help you isolate if the issue stems from a plugin conflict.
Start by accessing your Managed WordPress dashboard. From there, select Plugins from the left-hand menu. You’ll find a “Deactivate” link below the plugin’s name and description. Click this and the plugin will now be deactivated.
Wrapping Up
The ever-expanding landscape of AI plugins for WordPress is a game-changer for website owners and creators. These tools empower you to build, manage, and grow your website with ease. With such a vibrant online support community ready to help, you’ll never be stuck. So, why not embrace the power of AI and watch your WordPress website grow?